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The New York Times best-selling series and 2008’s #1 graphic novel on amazon.com comes to iTunes!

Conceived and written by Gerard Way, The Umbrella Academy features interior art by Eisner Award–winning artist Gabriel Bá and Eisner Award–winning colorist Dave Stewart, and covers by multiple Eisner Award–winning painter James Jean.

In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, “To save the world.”

These seven children form the Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and deadly Eiffel Tower, piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again.

“. . . flawless . . . stylish, imaginative . . .” —Newsarama

“The Umbrella Academy knocked my socks off. I can't really recall the last time I picked up a book and was so unbelievably surprised at how good it actually was, but it happened here.” —Ain’t It Cool News

“An ultraviolet psychedelic sherbet bomb of wit and ideas. The superheroes of the 21st century are here at last . . .” —Grant Morrison

•Interior art by Eisner nominee Gabriel Bá, recently featured as one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 100 cartoonists.